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Re:NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space ... by dylan604 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:24AM (#37338664)
wavelength is just a requirement for an antenna which doesn't need to be shielded. i wasn't specifically saying use COTS phone chipsets, but the fact that the miniaturization is now possible. however, the little helicopter on Mars running Snapdragon chip (irc?) shows that COTS is possible
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Re:NASA officials sound alarm over future of the Deep Space ... by dotnet00 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:44PM (#37342707)
The helicopter has a Snapdragon, and then IIRC one of the experiments on the rover has two Intel Atoms, plus using ethernet to talk to the cameras.
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